Hans Luther was the principled and respected president of the Reichsbank—but he wouldn’t accede to Hitler’s demands.

Discover how Allied forces and brilliant women analysts uncovered and delayed Hitler’s V2 rocket program, saving countless ...

As Operation Barbarossa stormed east, Hitler expected full Finnish support to crush Leningrad. But Marshal Mannerheim had ...

At the hour of Germany’s surrender in 1945, they performed a program by Felix Mendelssohn — whose music was banned under the ...

Adolf Hitler saw Leningrad not just as a military target, but as a symbol of communism that had to be destroyed. This episode ...

As the war collapsed around them, Germany looked to suicide missions. The result: a cockpit-welded V-1 bomb piloted by ...

Today marks 100 years since the publication of 'Mein Kampf', the book in which the Nazi leader poured all his hatred against ...

While German forces approached from the south, Finland closed in from the north—completing the noose around Leningrad. Driven ...

The first naval battle of World War II unfolded not in European waters, but in the South Atlantic off the coasts of Argentina ...

Coca Cola was Adolf Hitler’s favorite beverage as he did not drink alcohol, and in fact was the preferred beverage at all high-profile Nazi Party events, served alongside beers and wines. People in ...

In the icy forests of Belgium, Hitler’s elite SS Leibstandarte faced off against Patton’s Third Army in one of WWII’s most ...